*** Welcome to piglix ***

Diocese of Constance

Prince-Bishopric of Constance
Hochstift Konstanz
State of the Holy Roman Empire
1155–1803


Coat of arms

The Bishopric of Constance lying astride the western end of Lake Constance
Capital Konstanz
Meersburg (from 1527)
Languages Low Alemannic
Government Elective monarchy
Historical era Middle Ages
Early modern period
 •  Missionary diocese established 585
 •  Prince-Bishopric 1155
 •  Council of Constance 1414–18
 •  Joined Swabian Circle 1500
 •  Mediatised to Baden 1803
 •  Diocese dissolved 1821
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Duchy of Swabia
Electorate of Baden


Coat of arms

The Bishopric of Constance, or Prince-Bishopric of Constance, (German: Hochstift Konstanz, Fürstbistum Konstanz) was a Prince-Bishopric and Imperial Estate of the Holy Roman Empire from the mid–12th century until its secularisation in 1802–1803. The much larger Roman Catholic Diocese of Konstanz existed from about 585 until its dissolution in 1821. It belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Mainz since 780/782.

The immediate territory of the Prince-Bishopric was scattered on both sides of western Lake Constance, stretching from the Höri peninsula and the High Rhine in the west along Untersee with the Monastic Island of Reichenau, the Bodanrück peninsula, and Lake Überlingen to the Linzgau region in the northeast. They did not include the Imperial City of Constance nor Petershausen Abbey. In the south, the bishop's territory bordered on the Landgraviate of Thurgau which was conquered by the Swiss Confederacy in 1460.


...
Wikipedia

...